marrying an egyptian

Submitted by kelly (Egypt), Jul 6, 2008 at 05:58

Hi Cheryl,

Im married to an egyptian. The Marriage process takes aprox. 1 month, though can probably be rushed in 2 weeks, by paying people under the table to speed it up. You need to go all over Cairo gettign stamps etc. But first you need to go to the british consulate for an interview and proof that you are not aready married and that your fiance is not already married. If you are divorced you need the certificate with you. You fiance must sign a contract in the consulate to agree that he will marry only one wife, you, they will also do a background check on your fiancee.

After all that, they'll give you a list of places to go, its very unhelpful though as most of the buildings involved arent signed well or easy to find. But it does give you a good guideline. You need to go all over Cairo to collect all the different stamps you need, then finally use one the the british embassy aproved translators to translate everything - before you sign. It important to use one of the approved translators, as the embassy will not register your marriage if has been translated by some one they dont approve of.

It normally takes a month to do all of that. But like i said it can be speed up into 2 weeks if you pay people under the table to go to the top of the list.

I hope this is helpful, Good luck cheryl

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